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Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
Honoré de Balzac · Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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Balzac's novel follows César Birotteau, a Parisian perfumer whose commercial success and social ambition lead to financial ruin, after which he struggles to repay his creditors and restore his honor. Readers interested in nineteenth-century French literature and Balzac's Human Comedy will find it valuable.
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
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